Tag: domestic violence

Numerous organisations around South Africa provide services such as counselling, temporary shelter and legal help to people in abusive relationships. We've compiled a guide...

Women and children are most vulnerable when it comes to domestic abuse and sexual violence. In many instances, the victims do not even know...

Our first Women's Month story features Lesley Ann Foster, who started the Masimanyane Women’s Support Centre.. This facility enabled her to grow personally as she helped others.
• Towards gender equality in SA

Human rights attorney Samantha Ngcolomba has established a law practice that is helping women in need in impoverished communities – most of them rural. And it is all pro bono.

Ntshieng Mokgoro’s This is for Keeps lays bare the dynamics of domestic violence, and asks how men and boys can be included as partners in the fight to eradicate violence against women and children.

NGO Bontlebame works to educate society that abuse of any kind is wrong, and to give vulnerable people the inner confidence to stand their ground against abuse.
• South Africans rise against rape